Student Collaboration with Blogging and Microblogs

A blog is a website that contains thoughts, commentary, photos or videos, usually based on a specific topic. The term "blog" is the contracted form of web log. Blogs are used for essentially two functions: the first is an online journal or diary and the second usually provides commentary or news items regarding a specific topic or area of interest. Blog d creating and editing entries.

Some popular blogging applications are:

Blogger

Wordpress

There is also a sub-category of blogging known as micro-blogging. A micro-blog is, as the name suggests, is smaller, more concise type of blog. Generally, micro-blogs focus on brief, text-based entries. The purpose of a micro-blog is to update one's status and/or share brief commentary. These entries are generally limited to a specific number of characters so as to maintain the succinct nature of said blogs.

The most popular microblogging application by far is:

Twitter